Quite simply… the answer to our prayers or Satan in disguise?! Its fate is its own to decide. This could be a huge success or a gargantuan failure. If successful this would revolutionize the way games are marketed, sold and experienced. Guess we will just have to wait and see….

So I’m really pumped about Champions Online. Absurdly so. I even started drawing up what my hero would look like… About halfway through I realized I was drawing the stupidest thing ever and proceeded to start over and create a second stupidest thing ever.

“The music that you hear is coming from the sparks that these two identical high power solid state Tesla coils are generating. There are no speakers involved. The Tesla coils stand 7 feet tall and are each capable of putting out over 12 foot of spark. They are spaced about 18 feet apart. The coils are controlled over a fiber optic link by a single laptop computer. Each coil is assigned to a midi channel which it responds to by playing notes that are programed into the computer software. What is not obvious is how loud the coils are. They are well over 110dB. Listen for the echo after the notes stop. These coils were constructed by Steve Ward and Jeff Larson. Programming and musical content by Steve Ward. Video was captured by Terry Blake and edited by Jeff Larson.”

Want to play some Megaman but don’t know which one to play again? Well how about a NEW one to play? This demo video, brought to you by wartwartx, aka Peter Sjostrand (a graphic designer/animator), introduces a brand new element to the game. That’s right, 2.5D, a mix between 2D and 3D that provides an almost Paper Mario type of feel. But here’s the spoiler: this video demo probably is not going to come to your fingertips at any point in the future, unless Capcom snatches up the idea, which seems pretty unlikely. Enjoy the video though.